Greg Maddux

It stunk Wednesday afternoon when it became official, and it stinks worse this morning because it makes you want to fire somebody.

Mark Buehrle signed with the Marlins. It’s not that Ozzie Guillen’s new team signed him away from Guillen’s last team, although that will get some nyah-nyah-nyah play.

No, it’s that one of the two most popular players on the South Side is gone from the White Sox. They didn’t have $58 million for him, they didn’t have it for four seasons, and they don’t get anything in exchange except for a solid piece of evidence in the case against Sox general manager Ken Williams.

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